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One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.

— Joan Didion

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

When I talk about pictures in my mind I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges.

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.

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